I need a wide nut electric guitar

[etp714]

I have looked everywhere and cannot seem to find one that is in my price range. I also have talked to some local shops and they can't seem to find one either.

So the situation being what it is am I able to buy one and have a wider nut i stalled? Please someone give me some good news I am getting discouraged. By the way I am not an experienced player and I am learning. I'm a beginner so keep that in mind. I don't want to start with acoustic because I will just end up buying electric anyway so the way I see it I should buy the guitar I will enjoy playing instead of buying something I don't really want.

[newey]

etp714-

Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!

So the situation being what it is am I able to buy one and have a wider nut i stalled?

It's not clear from your post why you want a guitar with a "wider nut", but what you really mean is a guitar with a wider neck at the nut end, since the width of the nut is dictated by the width of the neck at that point(and by the need to have even spacing between one's strings). So, you can't buy a guitar and have a wider nut installed, since the neck used dictates the nut width. You'd need to swap out the entire neck.

Acoustic guitars tend to be wider to facilitate finger-picking, while electrics tend to be narrower for fast playing. There are electric guitars with wider necks- my Washburn comes to mind- but they are not very much wider, maybe just a few mm.

For comparison purposes, let's agree that the Fender Strat would be the benchmark for electrics. An Am Std Strat has a 42mm (1.650") nut width. A Les Paul Std is slightly wider, at 1.695 inches (43.053mm), i.e., only a fraction more than a mm wider.

A quick web search brought up this outfit, that makes electrics with a 1 7/8" nut width, which translates to 47.6mm. They advertise as being made for players with larger fingers. This is not an endorsement, I had never heard of this company before Googling it and know nothing more about them. But they seem reasonably priced.

www.biglouguitar.com/

[reTrEaD]

Jul 29, 2020 6:23:34 GMT -5 etp714 said:

I have looked everywhere and cannot seem to find one that is in my price range.

I doubt anyone would be willing to help you search unless you give at least an approximate limit on your price range. (and neck width at the nut you need)

Jul 29, 2020 6:23:34 GMT -5 etp714 said:

So the situation being what it is am I able to buy one and have a wider nut i stalled?

That's unlikely to work, unless for some strange reason a guitar has a wide enough neck at the nut, and has a nut with narrow string spacing. Putting a nut with wider string spacing than the neck was designed to accommodate will result in the first and sixth strings being precariously close to the edge of the fretboard. No bueno!

[ashcatlt]

If you can also live with a longer neck, you might look at a baritone guitar. With light enough strings, you could probably tune it up to standard.

[ourclarioncall]

Check out warmoth.com for a custom made neck with larger or rather wider neck at the nut end. Also check for used warmoth necks or warmoth guitars on eBay.com etc, you might find a super wide one for half the price.

i have seen other companies make them but couldn’t find when I looked. 

[ourclarioncall]

On the topic , I really want a big neck too. I have a classical guitar and I like the big fat “D” shape neck, wide nut and flat fingerboard.

i basically want that in an electric guitar.

i also want the string to have consistent spacing all over the neck , the same at the nut and bridge. I like having wide gaps and I feel like I can manipulate the strings much better and have more control over them for things like bends and vibrato etc.

i would have the e string sit where the b string is to crest much more room under it. It’s worth trying.

also you can try playing with just 3, 4 or 5 strings , but spaced wider apart.  

[ourclarioncall]

Another option you’ve got for a wide neck is to convert a 7 string to a 6 string. Like an Ibanez 7 string for example. I’ve seen videos of this on YouTube , it’s not that hard to do or get someone to do , giving you much more space. I thought about it myself as Ibanez have some nice necks, even 7 string or more can feel good in the hand